STOCK AT AUCTION

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 29 September 1933, Page 10

STOCK AT AUCTION

WESTFIELD*SALE KEEN WETHERS IN SHORT SUPPLY AUCKLAND, Sept. 27. Competition was again keen for most classes at the Westfield sale to-day. Prices were generally very firm on last week.

The yarding of beef was slightly greater than at the previous sale, but still met with a brisk demand, and prices .showed a barely quotable rise. Extra choice ox sold to 20s a 1001 b, choice and prime ox 17 s to 19s, secondary and plain ox i4s to 16s, prime young cow and heifer beef ISs to 20s, ordinary cow beef 1.3 sto 15s, Extra heavy steers made £B‘ 15s to-£9 7s 6d, heavy prime steers £7 15s to £S 7s 6d, lighter prime £6 15s to £6 12s 6d, small and unfinished steers £5 2-s 6d to £5 15s, heavy prime cow.s and heifers £5 10s to £5 17s Gd, lighter prime cows and heifers £4 to £5 ss, other billable cows £2 10s to £3 ss : .

There was a fully average yarding of calves. Competition was steady, but values were hardly as good as those ruling at the last sale. Runners made £3 5s to £4 2s, heavy vealers £3 2s to £3 11s, medium £2 16s to £3, light £2 3s to £2 Bs, small £1 7s to £1 12s, unfinished and bucket-fed 12s to 21s, bobby calves 3s to Bs.

The sheep market also met keen bidding. Wethers were in short supply and advanced about Is a head. Ewes, however, were plentiful, and prices were unchanged. Extra heavy prime wethers' 29s to 325, medium to heavy unshorn 25s to 28s, shorn 18s 6d to 24s 6d, unfinished 18s 6d to 21s, heavy prime ewes 19s to 22s 6d, lighter' 17s 6d to 18s 9d, others 7s to 16s 6d, heavy prime hoggets 2.1 s 6d to 27_s, lighter 17s 6d to 21s, small and plain hoggets 14s to 17s. • Lambs were yarded in increased numbers and, although competition was keen, values ivere easier by Is to 2-s a head. Heavy fine lambs made 23s to 25s 6d, medium 19s 6d to 22s 6d, others 13s 6d to- 18s 6d. Pigs were in full supply and the de-

mand was very firm, with quotations fully equal to last week’s. Choppers, 30s to 645, baconers 40s to 675, porkers 25s to. 38s, slips 19s to 22s 6d, weaner.s 11s to 18s. ADDINGTON VALUES RISESHORT YARDING OF SHEER. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 27. A short, yarding of fat sheep of fairly poor quality causecl a sharp rise in prices at Addington to-day, when values were a full 2s up and in some cases 4s to ss. Fat cattle also improved by 10s a head. Store sheep met a steady demand, particularly ewes with iambs. Fat cattle.—An entry of 335, with the quality better than recent yard-;

mgs, with consignments! forward from Otago, SoutMand and the West Coast, met a steady sale, the top price being £l4 12s 6d. Values were: Show bullock £l4 12s (3d, extra prime heavj steel's to £l3 2s 6d, prime heavy £9 10s to £l2, prime medium-weight, £3 10s to £lO 10s, ordinary £6 10s to £B, light to £6, extra prime heifers to £lO 17s 6d, prime £6 15s to £8 lss, medium £4 15s to £(5 ss, light to £4 10a, show cow £lO 2s (id, extra prime £8 10s to £9 7s 6d, prime £5 iOsi to £7 10s, medium £4 to £5 ss, light to £3 15s. Best beef made 26s to 29s a 1001 b, and in a few cases over 30s, good 22s to 265, heavyweight 19s to 225, medium 15s to 18s, rough down to 14s. bat sheep. —A yarding of 3000, with the qualit- below average, met a strong demand. Values were: Extra prime heavy wethers to 40s Id, prime heavy 31s 6d to 355, medium-weight prime 28s to 31s. ordinary 24s to 27s 6d, light 20s to 23s 6d,. extra prime heavy owes to 34s 7d, prime heavy 29s to 325, medium-weight prime 26s to 28s 6d, ordinary 23s to. 25s 6d, light 19s to 22s Cd. Spring iambs.—A yarding of 220, the biggest this season, met an easing in demand, but a. steady sale, at ah average of from 91 d to lOd a lb. Store sheep.—A fairly small yarding with not many outstanding lots. Ewes with lambs were in keen demand at good prices. Values were: Medium ewe hoggets 15s, 3d, good wethers to L6s 2d, medium 12s to 14s 6d, medium jn.s. 13s to 15s, ordinary m.s. 10s to 12s, medium eweis and lambs (all counted) to 11s lOd. ordinary 14s to 10s, good wethers to 18s 2d. ordinary 14s to 16s. Eat pigs.—A. medium entry, which met a good demand. Medium-weight porkers were m short supply, and [•here was a good demand for baooners.

Value® were; Choppers 20s to £3 18s fid, porkers 27s fid to 32s fid, heavy: J{6s fid to 38s fid (average price' per' lb fid to .s id); baconers 45s fid to '2s (id, heaw-'SSs fid to £3 2s fid, extra heavy to £3 5s fid (average price per Jb, 4d to 4£d). BURNSIDE FAT CATTLE. ADVANCE IN RATES. DUNEDIN, Sept. 27. A va I'd ill" or 215 fat cattle was offered at Burns.de (sale to-day, the hulk of the yarding being cleared at from 15s to 20s per head above lastweek’s rates. Extra prime heavy bullocks sold to £l3 12s fid. prime heavy £lO to £l2. medium £7 10s to £9 10s>, light and unfinished to £fi 10s, best heifers to £l2 2s fid, others from £4 10s to £7 10s, best cows to £7. and others £3 10s to £5.

Prime wethers again were prominent in a yarding of 1800 sheep, and some excellent lines of ewes were also included. An easing' in values to Is per lie.ul for wethers occurred in the •oucluding stages. Ewes were firm at the pievious week’s rates. Extra prime heavy wethers sold to 34s 3d, prime heavy 29s to 325, prime medium 25s to 28s, light prime 21s to 245, light and unfinished. 16s to 19s. best ewes made to 29s fid. prime heavy 2(5s to 28s, prune medium 23s to 2fis> light prime 20s to 225. unfinished 16s to 19s, a few pons of hoggets sold well up to 225. Spriiitr lanihs sold at fully last week's rates the top price being 355. A medium entry of store cattle came ■forward. In keeping with the improver! prices for fat catile, values for store cows 1 were on a par with last week’s .rates.

V small varding of dairy' cows came forward, pnd met a quiet market.

Fat purs met a keen demand, prices appreciating 5s to Vs fid per head. Good baconers made up to £2 7s, good porkors £2 10s. Store pigs were easier.